Leeds United footballer Lee Bowyer has shown a jury the clothes he claims to have worn on the night he is accused of assaulting a student.

Mr Bowyer, 24, changed into a leather jacket, dark jean-type trousers and black shoes with a metal buckle but did not wear any socks.

The prosecution at Hull Crown Court has alleged the shoes Mr Bowyer gave to police were not the ones he wore on the night Sarfraz Najeib was assaulted in Mill Hill, Leeds, in January last year.

Mr Najeib suffered serious injuries

Mr Bowyer, of Leeds, Jonathan Woodgate, 21, of Middlesbrough, Paul Clifford and Neale Caveney, both 22 and from Middlesbrough, deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Mr Najeib. All four also deny affray.

When asked by his defence to fasten his jacket, Mr Bowyer said he was slightly overweight and was injured.

His counsel Desmond de Silva QC asked: "Injuries make you fat do they?" He replied: "They do for me, yes."

Mr Bowyer paraded before the jury standing on a step.

The footballer was warned by the trial judge, Mr Justice Henriques, not to talk to the jury after he asked them if they could see.

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The jury was shown a video of Mr Bowyer leaving the Majestyk nightclub on the night Mr Najeib was attacked.

The footballer claimed the light shining from the side of his foot was his skin because he was sockless at the time.

But the prosecution claims the shoes Mr Bowyer was wearing on the night had a buckle on the side, not the top.

Asked if he disliked socks by Mr de Silva, he said: "It's like a thing back in London. I can't explain it. It's a thing that we did."